Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> writes:
> L p R n d n schreef op vr 17-12-2021 om 12:51 [+0000]:
>>
>> Hello guix,
>>
>> Trying to cross-compile glib to aarch64with:
>>
>> guix build --target=aarch64-linux-gnu glib
>>
>> I get this error:
>>
>> `Unbound variable: %outputs
>>
>> I suppose the glib’s definition needs to be adapted to Guix’s new
>> style
>> which was merged a few days ago?
>>
>
> Actually, glib's build system (meson-build-system) did not support
> cross-compilation at all before the merge. Cross-compilation support
> was added on that branch, but glib's package broke later, presumably in
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=f22f6fc3b6cc6382df3246d192a40a3951b48c37>.
>
> The fix would be to replace to wrap the configure flags in a #~,
> instead of a ´,replace (assoc-ref %outputs "bin") by #$output:bin and
> adjust the configure flags of glib-with-documentation to use #~ and #$
> instead of ´ and ,.
>
> To avoid rebuilds, some
> (if (%current-target-system) #~#$output:bin #~(assoc-ref %outputs
> "bin"))
> may be needed.
Thanks for the hints. I'm trying the following fix on my (local for
now) version-1.4.0 branch:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
modified gnu/packages/glib.scm
@@ -212,12 +212,11 @@ (define glib
`(,(this-package-native-input "python")
,(this-package-native-input "python-wrapper")))
'()))
- #:configure-flags (list "--default-library=both"
- "-Dman=false"
- "-Dselinux=disabled"
- (string-append "--bindir="
- (assoc-ref %outputs "bin")
- "/bin"))
+ #:configure-flags #~(list "--default-library=both"
+ "-Dman=false"
+ "-Dselinux=disabled"
+ (string-append "--bindir="
+ #$output:bin "/bin"))
#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
;; Needed to pass the test phase on slower ARM and i686 machines.
@@ -365,8 +364,8 @@ (define-public glib-with-documentation
(arguments
(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments glib)
((#:configure-flags flags ''())
- `(cons "-Dgtk_doc=true"
- (delete "-Dman=false" ,flags)))
+ #~(cons "-Dgtk_doc=true"
+ (delete "-Dman=false" #$flags)))
((#:phases phases)
`(modify-phases ,phases
(add-after 'unpack 'patch-docbook-xml
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Thanks,
Maxim
